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The Delhi government schools welcomed students of Nursery to Class 8 today after a gap of almost two years. To help students adjust in the school environment, Delhi Government’s Directorate of Education has asked all HoSs to focus on students’ social-emotional wellbeing in the first two weeks. Students will be encouraged to share their experiences freely and explore the new school environment. School closure for two years has widened the learning gaps among students, it had said. In such a situation, it is important that when they return back to school, teachers’ focus should be on supporting their social emotional…

Urgent missing appeal to find Okhla’s 12-year-old Shadab This is a 12-year-old Shadab Ansari, son of our house help and he has been missing for the last 5 days, wrote Syed Hassan Kazim on his timeline some four hours ago, sharing photo of the missing youth. “The FIR was filed yesterday in Jamia Nagar police station. Please share this post so that his distraught, wailing mother meets her son,” wrote Kazim, a journalist, who works with TOI and is a resident of Okhla.

Is ex-Okhla Cong MLA Parvez planning to launch his daughter-in-law in MCD polls? With the MCD polls 2022 not very far, political parties and local leaders have started to lay down their strategies to get ready for the big fight. Though the date of the MCD polls is yet to be announced, local leaders in Okhla have already started their campaign to win hearts and minds of voters and lay their claims to the party ticket. Of the long list of aspirants in Okhla the buzz in the locality is that former Okhla MLA from the Congress, Parvez Hashmi, is…

Free medical check-up camp by ECM Free medical check-up camp was organised on Sunday by Earth Care Mission at J/76/29, Ashiana Complex, T.N-4, Abul Fazal Enclave. “All the ECM members were present on this occasion to make the medical camp a success. Azhar Alam, M Hashmi and Athar Alam Advocates and Dr Rehan Badar, Dr Arfin and Engg. Hashmi, Parvez Farooqui and Parvez Akhtar and Imam of Masjid Noor and others were present. “Local residents got benefit from the camps,” said Hashmi.

Zero-waste event: Ahmed family holds marriage function in eco-friendly way After Ahmed family solemnised a marriage function in a completely eco-friendly way and ensured Zero-Waste coming out of the venue and all the SOPs for zero-waste wedding function were observed by the organisers at the venue, the SDMC said it congratulated the family for successfully organising a zero-waste event and inspiring others to follow the same. The civic body also appealed to all the residents to go for zero-waste functions. All the cooperation and support will be provided to the organisers such events, it said. In view of Swachh Survekshan-2022,…

Will contest under ex-Okhla Cong MLA Asif Md Khan’s patronage, says Advocate Aarfa Khanam after pitching her candidacy. Her husband shared a photo showing Asif Khan endorsing her candidacy. Aarfa is seeking Congress ticket from Abul Fazal Enclave ward for the 2022 civic poll. Even before the ward wad reserved, she had started her campaign. Unlike other candidates, she is contesting on her own. It has been noticed that men are accompanying their wives giving an impression of proxy, said Okhla watcher. Of them Advocate Aarfa Khanam is leading from the front and is doing all to win hearts and…

Jamia School teacher Haris Haq bereaved Jamia School teacher and university alumnus Haris Haq bereaved. According to Jamia School teacher Syed Mohd Kazim, Haris brother Ch Rehanul Haq died and tadfeen to take place on in Batla House graveyard after zohar prayer on Sunday. Haris told the OT over phone that his brother died of heart attack on Saturday 7 pm at his Batla House flat. Rehanul was 62 years old and was associated with Jamia Cooperative Bank. On Saturday night he collapsed on his chair in his flat while one of his sons was pressing his leg, he said,…

Delhi Govt schools intensify preparations for board examinations from April 26 The Directorate of Education (DoE) has intensified the preparations to empower Delhi students for the upcoming board exams. As CBSE has now announced that it will conduct the board examination from April 26, 2022 onwards, schools have started preparing students for the examinations, it said. A meeting regarding the same was conducted by the Director Education on Saturday. The DoE has directed the Heads of Schools (HoSs) to ensure that students of senior secondary sections, class 10 and 12 attend the classes regularly. For next two months, teachers should…

MCD poll: Rat race in Okhla for party ticket The date of MCD elections 2022 in Delhi is yet to be announced but political aspirants have started their campaign to not only win hearts and minds of residents but also to impress their parties’ post-bearers to grab a ticket. The aspirants are in a rate-race particularly in two Muslim dominated wards, Abul Fazal Enclave and Zakir Nagar, which have been reserved for women. Both sitting AAP Councillor Wajid Khan and Congress Councillor Shoaib Danish fighting anti-incumbency, opposition parties are strongly feeling that there is an opportunity to get ticket and…

Bater (quail) meat report top search on OT this winter, readers searching for address Community portal has noticed that this winter many foodies who love bater (quail) meat are searching for its address on the OT. When this portal had ran a report last year on one eatery in Okhla providing bater meat it was a huge hit with many turning up at the shop in Abul Fazal Enclave to relish the meat. And once again the portal has seen readers searching for it and visiting the portal which earlier had carried the address of the outlet. ALSO READ: Bater…